Sun Was High

Summer is coming to an end and its so funny because I'm just as pale now as I was when summer started. Actually with all the hiding out inside I've been doing due to the unbearable heat in Tennessee I could very well be even paler. Summer was great and wonderful but I just ordered some tights so the seasons need to change accordingly. (As for the watermelon shaped hole in my heart, I think hot chocolate will fill that void just fine.) Here are a couple last snapshots of the summer.

The most wonderful Hatch Show Print.

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza that's amore!

(Yes, thats a pizza/my eye.)

Many summer adventures for goat cheese swirled with red cherries ice cream and impromptu stops for some prime time picture taking.

PANCAKE PARTY!

Tess and I got our brunch on this summer. Pancake Pantry might have been the winner (sweet potato pancakes with cinnamon syrup and blueberry pancakes with 4 lbs of butter. Sweet mother of Land O'Lakes!) but cheesey grits and banana french toast at J. Christopher's was a close second!

One of the 1000 homemade pizzas I managed to make this summer. Cheese, sauce, cheese, onions, cheese, spinach, and (hold onto your 5lb-hand-weights-as-hard-as-you-can-cause-I-sure-didn't-this-summer..) MORE CHEEZE!

OH NASHVILLE!

How I love you.

Should I count the ways?

NOT ENOUGH TIME!

Lots of flea market finds this summer. One trip ended with a jam packed car where the trunk was tied with rope. But I mean, like I'm supposed to pass up a $10 pale yellow tv stand.. UHH I think not! Also that wonderful white fence part is going to be used as Ali's headboard, cause she is a creative genius handy woman!

A true gem found at Goodwill.

Kiddies Christmas.

That is all, goodnight.

Summer 2011 was one for the books. But don't let the door hit you on the way out, back sweat, hot car seats and high electricity bills! I've already bought my autumn leaves candle from Yankee Candle so its about time you beat it, fool. Nobody likes you anymore, summer! (I was expecting to see my thermostat drop if I bullied summer out but apparently its just not taking it! I tried y'allz. It's like those Obama 'CHANGE' posters never even happened!)

Hope your day is outrageously wonderful!

Sun Was High- Best Coast

Summer Mood

Impromptu weekends where my little sister Tess stays with me all week and we spend it with board games, black bean quesadillas, Arrested Development marathons, blue hair dye, 4 cheese pizza, banana pudding pancakes&cheesy grits, and laughs galore.

Road trips to my homeland.

Wensley got his hair did. And when I say he got his hair did I mean that we had extra blue hair dye which meant we got a blue streak on top of his head SO WE CAN BE MATCHING FOREVER! (or at least until it washes out.)

COTTON CANDY MAKING Y'ALL!
Step right up to Carnival de Chelsea. We've got the blue haired cat, the cheese obsessed lady, and now some sweet treats to enjoy while watching the spectacle. But for realzz, making homemade cotton candy is my new favorite thing and I hope my neighbors don't get tired of me passing out sticks of pineapple, cherry, and blueberry cotton candy!

Not only finishing a game of monopoly but actually winning it too?! Sweet cream cheese schmear on a bagel, I never thought I'd see the day! I would like to thank Disney Monopoly, the power of bruschetta, and my prime time 101 Dalmatians spot.

Dance times on the boat.
(This picture is sponsored by the Beach Boys pandora station)
MIDNIGHT HARRY POTTER MOVIE PREMIERE!
Where BFF, Chelsea... I mean Luna Lovegood, ran into Hagrid.

Hope your day is incredibly joyful and that we are all recovering from The Bachelorette season finale last night. (But can I get a WHAT WHAT for Bachelor Pad next week!?)

Summer Mood- Best Coast

Screws get loose

Another round of disposable camera pictures!

Mayor McCheese at Scots Antique Market in Atlanta.

{Its safe to say I definitely missed out on adding this buddy to my living room decor.}

Disposable camera love and overloading on Sweet Cece's,

Hot air balloons and clear skies.

5 cheese pizza with triple the amount of each cheese than normal with spinach and onions and a 300th viewing of 'Going the Distance' this is what Wednesday nights are all about!

Those Darlins at Mercy Lounge.

{One of my favorite new bands.}

Happy birthdays and 8 layer cakes.

Harassing my little sister at work. I'm sorry, that was being uber supportive to my sister for her very first job.

Hope your day is SIMPLY THE BEST!

Screws Get Loose- Those Darlins

The 59th Bridge Street Song

Well March has practically flown by without a single blog post..so theres that! "WHAT IS THE DEAL!?" said in your best Grinch voice. {Yes, I'm still quoting the Grinch.. everythings the same! There's really no need to catch up!} But besides the usual Friends marathons, over-dosing on cheese, and quoting the Grinch... here's what I've been up too!

Mexican coke vanilla bean gelato floats at Burger Up.

I had to pass due to the fact that I ate every single sweet potato fry in the building. Can't I have just have the marathon burger for every meal? Who do I need to make a deal with... just gotta part with my soul or something?!

Birthday cake I decorated for my sister's birthday.

{You probably can't guess how old she turned.}

Also lets not talk about how I wasn't invited to the party this cake was for. Its like she is too cool for her awkwardly embarassing sister! Pssh!

Rock band marathons.

Boston- More than feeling.

The Police- Message in a bottle.

Blink 182- What's my age.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps.

Rocking 100% all day long. Does this mean I can be a profesh star guitarist now. Watch yo'self Jimi Hendrix! Jumping picture fail WIN!

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER!
And loving Ali's way too awesome skirt.

G. LOVE!
Any man who can rock a harmonica likes that has my heart. {it doesn't hurt that he sings about cups of coffee and wine galore.} TO-TAL ladies man.
And had the gaggle of screaming ladies to prove it. I, of course, kept my cool. No I didn't.Going out dancing!
Bustin' a move while simultaneously avoided the creeptastic brah who wouldn't leave us alone! Flea market fun.
Why I passed on the opportunity of owning a larger than life size Darth Maul will forever haunt me. I mean he would of been a perfect addition to the living room.. right next to the end table!

Not pictured: gluing my hands together with krazy glue, dance sesh to B.Spears' new song, dreaming about Michael Moscovitz after watch Princess Diaries {FLASHBACK!}, cheese balls, cheesecake, my pretend sprang brake '11 {since I don't really get one..}, mini road trips to Chattanooga, popcorn buckets, and the day I drove around giving away 16 dozen free cupcakes.

The 59th Street Bridge Song- Simon & Garfunkel
Feelin' groovy d0000d!
I'm on a total Simon & Garfunkel kick right now. Thanks to a recent rewatching of The Graduate. A little "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" when I'm cooking. And some "Sound of Silence" to start the day.


Hope your day is groovetastic!

12 Days of Christmas: 3rd Annual COOKIE PARTY!

every year i have a little cookie swap party extravaganza where everyone brings a platter of cookies, sccchwaps with everyone else, and then leaves with a platter of different cookies! {of course not before we have a major tasting session. my goal is for everyone to walk out of there five pounds heavier with holiday cheer!} i spent the whole day baking with my friend... pb kiss cookies, puppy chow, oatmeal scotchies, cupcakes.. you name it, we baked it! and after we spent the whole day eating raw dough {which i always promise myself i won't and always end up doing anyway} we had a healthy dinner of cookies galore!

PEANUT BUTTER KISS COOKIES!

1 c. sugar
1 c. butter
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
2 (10 oz. pkg.) Hershey Kisses
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. creamy peanut butter
1/4 c. milk
3 1/2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking soda

Mix all ingredients above except kisses. Shape in medium size balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes. Let cool for a few minutes, place 1 kiss on each blossom.

whats that crazy eyed girl doing on this blog...
oh wait, thats me!
TOO. MUCH. SUGAR!!!
{also my OHMYGAWWWSH-ITs-CHRISTMAS FACE looks more like a come-here-little-child-i've-got-candy face.}MEXICAN WEDDING COOKIES!

OREO BALLS!
NUTELLA COOKIES!
ESPRESSO COOKIES!!

and after we ate ourselves into a sugar coma we went to the midnight premiere of black swan.. because nothing like a pyschological thriller to put you in the holiday spirit!

CUPCAKES, and COOKIES, and SWEET TREATS... OH MY!

hope your holiday eats were wonderfully sweet and shared with delightful friends!

12 Days of Christmas: Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas time!

officially, christmas is over. {WHY GOD WHY!?!?!?!?!?} unofficially, i'm going to hold onto to it as long as i can. {where are you christmas why can't i find youuu?!} so get ready for some jam packed christmas posts to come! {that's what she said.. NO TIME! its almost another holiday!}

christmas lights in franklin.

cookie baking and sweet treats making.

franklin's version of the rockefeller center's christmas tree.

ANTLERS, YO!

"alright, you're a reindeer. here's your motivation. you're a freak with a red nose and nobody likes you. then one day santa picks you and you save christmas!"

dickens of a christmas!

in the middle of a snow storm!

holly jolly holidayzzz.

CANDY CANE KISSES!

you could say i am just a little bit obsessed.

just a little bit.

oh christmas tree, oh christmas tree.

pretty tess next to the pretty tree.

usually i am very picky about which christmas tree we get.. the bigger, the better {i mean i am american..am i right or am i right?!} but i didn't go to pick it out this year. but tess did me proud. ITS GINORMOUS!

it's a wonderful life at the belcourt with wonderful friends.

"What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary."

hope everyone's christmas was MERRY and BRIGHT!!

*all pictures are from a disposable camerea. i can't get enough of them! apparently its the 90s again! quick someone grab jelly sandals and my tamagotchi pet!

somebody call GUINNESS... WE MADE A WORLD RECORD!!

late one night i made the biggest bowl of oatmeal ever. if big foot had a bowl he used for oatmeal, it would of been 3 sizes smaller than this bowl. thats how big this bowl was. i know what you're thinking, "WHAT THE CUSS!??!" but yes. the bowl was giant and the oatmeal was tasty. and now i'm just waiting for my spread in the guinness world record book 2010.

{ahh... my spoon is SINKING!}

OATMEAL LOVERS UNITE!

grab some friends and enjoy a giant bowl of your fave oatmeal for a late night treat.

have an over the top TASTY day!

Kodak FunSaver 3000- TAKE 2

the prettiest movie theater i ever did see.

too bad the inside doesn't match the outside.

#ijudgedabookbyitscoveranditfailedme

i really don't ever get tired of sweet cece's.

i mean its got all the food groups. basically.

breeafaaast, lunch n munch, and dinneh. all day, everyday!

despica... de de des

des despicable me.

despicable me!

had to fight off a giant dragon on my way to the movies. if you think he's frightening now, you should of seen him before i plastered him to the wall, sentencing him to a life of misery. {hey, what can i say. i really wanted to get to the movies!}

a big top cupcake for a BIG ANNIVERSARY!

it was my grandparent's 50th year of being married!

huzzah!

smores&campfires.

friends watching friends!

"Now our Neil must decide
Who will be the girl that he casts aside?
Will Betty be the one who he loves truly
Or will it be the one who we'll call L-L-Lulie?
He must decide, he must decide
Even though I made him up he must decide"

hope your day is outstandingly marvelous!